[NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble

[Burton M. Strauss III]

The fact that the vendor has gone bust and support is no longer available,
plus the lack of source availability (or was there an escrow that is now
open?) should be prima facie evidence that you DO need an alternate vendor.

As a guess, the server side file has gotten corrupted - try deleting it
(save if off some where first) and recreating it.

-----Burton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Harshal Vaidya
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:55 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Trouble
>
>
> Hi Listmates,
>
> I am in a bit of a fix and need some advise.
>
> I have a thrid party library provided by a company
> which i am using in my app. Now i have the debug,
> release and optimize, all the versions of this lib.
>
> The company has now gone bust and hence that app is no
> longer supported. I suspect that there is a problem in
> that library due to which our program is crashing.
>
> In a nutshell, the library is trying to open a binary
> file and reading some content from it. It is during
> this reading that it is crashing. I can say this for
> sure since the server side shows an explicit message
> such as "Error in reading the event loop type in the
> <xyz> configuration file".
>
> Now this configuration file is in binary so we cant
> possibly figure out what its containing.
>
> Second thing i tried is running the program through
> gdb since I thought that the library was a debug
> version and would be able to provide a clue.
>
> What other options do I have in debugging this
> problem?
> I can't contact any person from the company since that
> company has gone under now.
>
> Are there any tools available for reverse
> engineering?The thing is that if we can establish that
> the error is in the supplied library itself we might
> be able to scrap that and go for some other vendor.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated.
>
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> =====
> Harshal Vaidya.
>
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